Vintage Wedding

So, I was cruising through my older Pinterest pins and found some inspiration from this card by Paula. Love hers, but I tweaked mine a bit to make it more me :)

Would you believe the bottom portion is actually sponged with Crumb Cake? It looks so close to the Baked Brown Sugar! I masked off the top part of the Naturals Ivory panel, then clear embossed the flowers and sponged with the Crumb cake. I was not going to stitch or doodle around the edges, but it looked too simple. I broke down and stitched it down :) The banner is a scrap of Naturals Ivory I sponged with Crumb Cake and die cut with a Bitty Banners die.

• Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Label Love, Yippee-Skippee
• Ink: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Baked Brown Sugar, Illuminate
• Paper: Baked Brown Sugar, Naturals Ivory
• Other: Big Shot with Bitty Banners framelit, Artisan Label and Itty Bitty Shapes punches, Pearls Basic Jewels, Clear and Gold embossing powder, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun, sponge, Baked Brown Sugar Stretch Ruffled ribbon, dimensionals, sewing machine and thread

 I lined the inside of the card with more Naturals Ivory and did a little generational stamping with the flower. This card could really be a wedding or an anniversary card, don't you think?

Strawberry Romance

Time for a little feminine crafting! I've been so focused on masculine stuff lately, I almost had to remind myself to make something girlie :) And I have bee dying to use this fabulous ruffled ribbon. It is sooo yummy!

This card will go in the Operation Write Home box, they always need Love, Thinking of You, and Miss You cards :) This is such a sweet sentiment. The flower embellishment is colored with markers and then some Gold Smooch Accent ink is dotted into the center. You can still get the accent ink on the Clearance Rack.  Love how well the Simply Pressed Clay sticks with a little bit of liquid glue :)

• Stamps: Lovely Romance
• Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Strawberry Slush, Baked Brown Sugar, Crushed Curry
• Paper: Whisper White, Strawberry Slush, Pear Pizzazz
• Other: Big Shot with Chalk Talk framelits and Beautifully Baroque embossing folder, Pistachio Pudding, Strawberry Slush, and Baked Brown Sugar Stretch Ruffled ribbon, Simply Pressed Clay and Buttons and Blossoms mold, Blender Pen, Frost White and Gold Lame' Pearlized Accent Ink, Signo white gel pen, Sticky Strip, dimensionals

Mountains of Sympathy

We all need a card for a sad occasion now and again, and I like to keep a stash of them so I don't have to rush to make one when I need it. But sometimes you need something a little more tailored to fit the person it is going to. Just such a thing occurred recently when one of my uncles passed away on Memorial Day weekend. He was my uncle-in-law for about 30 years as he and my uncle had been together for that long. I will miss Robert aka: Auntie Bo-Bo! He has had AIDS since the late 80's and had been doing very well, until this spring when pneumonia caught him. This card will go to Jerry and they have lived in the California mountains for a long time, so I needed something simple and masculine, serene. I hope that is what I achieved here.

I masked off the top and bottom of the cardfront and sponged on some Island Indigo, Soft Suede, and Whisper White. Then I stamped the trees in Early Espresso and Whisper White, and the sentiment in Early Espresso. After it dried a bit, I added the white gel pen frame.

• Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Love and Sympathy
• Ink: Island Indigo, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Whisper White
• Paper: Crumb Cake
• Other: Naturals designer buttons, Island Indigo Baker's Twine

Giggling Cheese!

Sometimes you just have to have a funny birthday card and I am so glad that Stampin' Up! came up with this new set! I love the funny stuff! I am not sure who is going to get this card, but I have a few candidates in mind (waggling eyebrows sadistically)!

I was just playing around with this image and this card just kind of evolved all on its own. That is my favorite way to create :) And I just cannot get enough of the Core'dinations papers! They just beg you to touch the card and stare at the texture, sigh....

• Stamps: Giggle Greetings
• Ink: Jet Black Stazon, Daffodil Delight, Gumball Green, Pumpkin Pie, Raspberry Ripple, Smokey Slate
• Paper: Smokey Slate,  Core'dinations: Pool Party, Primrose Petals, and Gumball Green, Whisper White, Naturals White
• Other: Big Shot with Perfect Polka Dots, Alphabet Press, and Chevron EF, Window Frames framelit, and Lardge Scallop edgelit, Festive Paper Piercing Pack, Paper Piercer and Mat, Sanding Block, Blender Pen, Daffodil Delight ¼" Stitched grosgrain ribbon

I may have to CAS myself and make this card with a few different images, I love the colors and patterns so much!

HELLO, Hello, hello!

I am still feeling my way around with this soft and subtle color. Hopefully I will master it soon :) I have seen some fun cards with a repeating sentiment in different colors and thought I would try my hand at it.

This is a rather simple card, maybe a little too simple. I keep looking at it thinking it needs more punch.... I guess we can't love every card we make, can we!

• Stamps: Mosaic Madness, Four You
• Ink: Soft Suede, Pistachio Pudding, Gumball Green
• Paper: Pistachio Pudding, Naturals White
• Other: Mosaic punch, Rhinestones Basic Jewels, dimensionals

Have I mentioned how easy the Mosaic Madness set is to create patterns with?! Sooooo easy! I do love that part of this card :)

Strawberry Curry

When I was doing my projects for the recent SA New Colors Blog Hop, I got a bit carried away! I was having so much fun playing with Crushed Curry, I just couldn't stop :) This started out as a tag, then I stuck it on a cardfront. I better remake the tag, because I think it is just gorgeous!

I haven't quite decided if this will be a birthday or a hello card. I will stamp the greeting where my watermark is later, in Early Espresso. Unless it is too big, then I will make a little banner in white for the sentiment. The flowers are on watercolor paper and the only yellow I used is the Crushed Curry. I love this little Strawberry Slush centers! And can you see the shimmery flowers in the background? They really add something in real life :)

• Stamps: Secret Garden
• Ink: Crushed Curry, Strawberry Slush, Illuminate
• Paper: Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake, Strawberry Slush, Watercolor
• Other: Big Shot with Apothecary Accents and Secret Garden framelits, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, Paper Piercer and Mat, Signo white gel pen, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack, Embossing Buddy, White embossing powder, Heat Gun, Doily, Aqua-painter, dimensionals, Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Gingham Garden Washi Tape

Waterfront Thoughts

Happy Father's Day to all those wonderful men on our lives! We need to honor those fellas and make them feel special :) I have quite a few of them in my life, and I have already made cards for all of them and featured them on my blog already.  So, I decided to make a masculine card that would work for any occasion, so I can send it on a random day to let one of my wonderful men know I am thinking of them.
And I wanted to play with my new toys ;)

I have been tossing the idea for a watercolored image with this stamp ever since I saw it in the new catalog. It jus makes me think of sunrise at the lake, when all of the "people" noises are gone, and that sun is just tinging the sky with pink.... ah, peace!
I used the Woodgrain embossing folder as it also reminds me of ripples in the water. The Chevron ribbon adds to the nautical feel of it :) I must confess, the color scheme was dictated by what color Chevron ribbon I have, hehe!

• Stamps: Wetlands
• Ink: Illuminate, Island Indigo, Smokey Slate, Crisp Cantaloupe, Whisper White
• Paper: Island Indigo, Pool Party Core'dinations, Naturals White, Watercolor
• Other: Big Shot with Woodgrain EF, Finishing Touches edgelits, and Apothecary Accents framelits, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun, Smokey Slate embossing powder, Smokey Slate and Island Indigo Chevron ribbon, Aqua-painter, Signo white gel pen, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, Paper Piercer and Mat, dimensionals, sewing machine and thread, Sanding Block, Island Indigo Candy Dots

To all the wonderful men in my life, I wish you a dozen of these kinds of mornings this summer!